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For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have loaded the bow with Ephraim. I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
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Verse 13. Juda: the Machabees. Saint Jerome—Filled, or stretched the bow of Ephraim. Calmet.—The people shall act with vigour and union. Bible.—Sons; that is the apostles, who, in the spiritual way, conquered the Greeks, and subdued them to Christ. Challoner.—The Machabees repressed the insolence of the Seleucides, who were of Greek extraction.
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